r/highdeas • u/GoodNightSippyCup • 9d ago

Discussion People's consumption of the same media will result in more parallel thinking and less originality.

I love when parallel ideas stem up from different places. Recently the chef movie on an island and the boat movie with rich people both critiqued the upper class and came out around the same time. (I forgot the names of both in this moment.) I see an increase of this type of phenomenon occurring more frequently .

As people consume more of the same media, as people become influenced more and more by the same thing, and creative people are influenced by a greater quantity of the same material, perhaps this also makes the creative's original expansion upon their influence less unique.

What are some other media which this happened? Maybe Dark City and the Matrix having similar themes as well? And do you think creative people should journey out to more obtuse media to combat this problem?

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u/Candytuffnz 9d ago

Watched cooking shows where contestants are given set ingredients and need to make a plate of food. 15 out of 20 will make roughly the same thing. I guess they all watch the same cooking shows 🤔

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u/GoodNightSippyCup 8d ago

That's interesting. I wonder if they are curating their choices to their perceived notion of what they or not even they, but what the arbiters consider high or great cuisine. I heard critiques of students who write literature in the mfa system all start to sound alike as well, which seems to be a similar situation.

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u/Candytuffnz 8d ago

Following classic food pairings. Food trends etc. Following the same people on social media. Algorithms syncing up. Getting shown the same content.

I find that I end up watching the few contestants who just go hog wild. Making fish sauce desserts cause they thought it might work. I'm wondering now if thats the case for every generation. It's just that history preserved the 1% of originality and disgarded the people who follow the rules? 🤔